Cp Grafix

Hi Jilles,

what does it mine if u only type 2mm spacer in front of the frontarm?
is there suppose to be 0 mm in the back then?

Thinking off your basic outdoor rubber setup?

AWK

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Jilles,

How do you maintain the bearings on your cars? How do you clean them in between races? How long do you feel they last?

Good luck this season!!!

franc furter

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Jilles, on your snowbirds setup what would you change to achive more corner exit steering? thanks

JGH

- Cp Grafix
2mm front and 2.5mm back, as total shims of the suspension arms is 4.5mm

- AWK
Honestly I never clean the bearings, I run them till they feel not good anymore and replace them. Some bearings I still use over 1 year already and still they are fine.


- Franc, to get more exit steering you can try arm sweep. Like 1C and 1B blocks. This gives more caster so more exit steering.

- Big Wig, the geardiff has zero slip, therefor you have more drive on the rear, then a balldiff. That's why geardiff has more steering on-power. All tracks I use geardiff in the rear now.

- Win dark, correct!

- Jon, let me know how things went with your test/race

Jilles

luic

Hello Jilles, thanks for all your help, i donīt run a Tamiya car, but i follow this post because is very helpfull, Ronald help too, in yokomo post, and anothers top drivers, this is good for the hobby.

I have a litle problem, i think this is indiferent for a brand of car, with my setup normally my car work very good with new tyres, but the performance going down a lot with used tyres, sometimes in the 2nd battery, do you have a tip, change in setup, ... for the performance going down less, or do you think need 2 diferents setups for new-used tyres.

Thanks, Luis C.

TryHard

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Hi Jilles,

Finally got to use my Sanwa handset today (it's been how many months since TITC!!), anyway, I have a question for you on how you set yours up.

I'm having to run 115% D/R (with EPA's at 100%R, 95%L) to get my desired amount of lock... does this sound right to you?

Regardless, have to say, feels so smooth to drive, and much lighter in the hands too, a BIG improvement

Cheers
Ed

Nilks

Hi Jilles.

I am going to race asphalt for the first time (and I only recently switched to Tamiya) this outdoor season. I have seen some of your setup sheets, but those were for high traction asphalt. I am going to race at a large outdoor track, with low grip. What setup would you recommend?

// Niklas Hansen

JGH

Luis, no problem! Good to see Ronald is also active at RCTECH, this is something more topdrivers should do, I agree.
Most of the time new tyres are faster then older tyres. You can't do much about this. Sure you can change your set-up for new and used tyres and also additives. But you need a lot of tyres to really test this.
But I can recommend a thinner additive for new tyres and thicker additive for used tyres. Thin additve such as FX2 and thick such as Tyre Tweak.


Hi Ed, good to hear you finally changed! I run my D-Rate at max.150% and EPA about 95% to get full lock.

Niklas, I'm sure the set-ups you have from one of the TRF drivers will be good enough for starting set-up. The Worlds set-up is probably the best set-up which also works for 417. As the worlds was run on medium grip tyres this set-up will work at medium grip track as well.
Other things you can try to get more traction is stand-up the shock little more, softer springs and softer oil.

Jilles

geeunit1014

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Jilles,

What was the main advantage of shimming up the bulkheads 0.5mm on the 416? Did you also put an extra 0.5mm under the arm mounts when doing this?

Thanks

TryHard

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Thanks Jilles, I'll be turning it up the D/R next time then. A fair few locals say my cars always look like they understeer.. wonder if that's part the reason...

crabboy

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Manu_05'

Hi Jilles,

How are you ?

I would like to know what can we do if the tires are overheating ?
Harder shock oil ? Softer spring ?

Regards,
Manu

Me_MrTyson

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JGH,

Recently found a CRC setup for the worlds you used a Orion 3.5 but no rollout information..

Are you willing to share?

shikakae123

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Hello Jilles.

I want to ask,how does rebound on the shocks effect the car?Should there be alot of rebound or only a little?

entitymugenmtx

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Is there a length you set your front and rear sway bar links ?